In search of ancient New Zealand
By: Hamish Campbell & Gerard Hutching.
Contributors: Hutching, Gerard.; GNS Science (N.Z.)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: North Shore, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780143020882
Subjects: Geology -- New Zealand; Historical geology -- New Zealand; Natural history -- New Zealand; Fossils -- New Zealand
Notes: "Co-published with GNS Science, New Zealand."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Hello, Zealandia! ; The Earth's crust ; Basalt, granite and volcanoes; title: Gondwanaland (505-83 million years ago). From Ur with love : our oldest stuff ; The greywacke story ; The oldest rocks : Western Province ; Hot rocks : Median Batholith ; The younger old rocks : Eastern Province; title: Zealandia (83-23 million years ago). Zealandian dinosaurs ; Crust busters : the tyranny of faults ; Life aboard Zealandia ; The immersion of Zealandia; title: New Zealand (23-0 million years ago). The emergence of New Zealand ; The rise of the Southern Alps (5-0 million years ago) ; Riding the past 120,000 years.